Data for 2006

Upper Secondary Attainment, 2006

Name: Upper Secondary Attainment, 2006
Creator: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
License: https://uis.unesco.org/

Figures for 2006, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Upper Secondary Attainment, 2006 covers 77 countries on 3 measures. Latvia is highest, at 86.02; Tanzania is lowest, at 1.31. The middle country reads 44.86. Against 2005, 52 values changed (40 up, 12 down), 25 countries joined, 13 left.

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Upper Secondary Attainment · Data for 2006

HighestLatvia

86.02

LowestTanzania

1.31

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

77countries
3measures per country
2006the year it describes
77distinct values15 decimals, as published
Sep 10, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY-SA 4.0licence

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Upper Secondary Attainment, 2006, as published. UIS ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

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Upper Secondary Attainment, 2006: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	86.02	87.16	84.58
2	United States`USA`Northern America	85.75	86.41	85.04
3	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	85.48	79.26	92.24
4	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	84.92	85.88	83.77
5	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	83.12	78.56	88.03
6	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	79.74	81.51	78.00
7	Canada`CAN`Northern America	79.40	79.12	79.71
8	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	77.85	70.93	85.26
9	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	77.43	73.96	81.35
10	Puerto Rico`PRI`Caribbean	76.78	77.48	75.98
11	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	75.86	74.43	77.64
12	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	75.30	67.38	83.93
13	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	75.03	69.51	81.06
14	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	74.69	70.56	78.99
15	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	73.34	69.95	77.32
16	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	73.25	71.16	75.43
17	New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	72.77	72.36	73.22
18	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	71.19	—	75.93
19	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	70.14	62.22	78.36
20	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	67.13	66.82	67.46
21	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	66.71	62.58	70.93
22	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	66.22	69.45	63.01
23	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	64.71	59.26	70.42
24	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	64.45	62.89	66.18
25	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	63.57	56.74	71.05
26	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	62.26	53.33	72.61
27	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	61.47	63.69	58.99
28	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	61.20	58.43	64.17
29	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	60.47	55.32	65.38
30	Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	58.75	56.30	61.36
31	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	57.73	55.47	60.17
32	France`FRA`Western Europe	54.12	50.02	58.63
33	Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	54.11	52.28	56.20
34	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	52.90	51.44	54.46
35	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	51.81	44.14	59.61
36	Cook Islands`COK`Polynesia	50.43	49.86	51.01
37	Andorra`AND`Southern Europe	49.95	50.27	49.66
38	Chile`CHL`South America	47.20	45.60	48.90
39	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	44.86	38.98	50.57
40	Peru`PER`South America	44.05	39.71	48.82
41	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	43.35	40.67	45.53
42	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	41.44	39.74	43.23
43	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	41.41	39.66	43.32
44	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	40.38	33.14	47.40
45	Panama`PAN`Central America	38.00	39.80	36.10
46	Macau`MAC`Eastern Asia	35.70	33.50	38.07
47	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	35.20	27.77	42.90
48	Venezuela`VEN`South America	35.09	37.54	32.55
49	Bolivia`BOL`South America	33.50	30.47	36.81
50	Ecuador`ECU`South America	33.10	32.60	33.70
51	Brazil`BRA`South America	32.42	33.72	30.97
52	Colombia`COL`South America	32.27	32.27	32.27
53	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	31.30	32.00	30.40
54	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	31.22	26.82	35.57
55	Mexico`MEX`Central America	30.26	28.33	32.54
56	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	28.70	30.80	26.50
57	Paraguay`PRY`South America	27.35	26.28	28.49
58	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	26.41	22.75	28.40
59	Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	25.56	31.33	22.93
60	Uruguay`URY`South America	24.74	26.90	22.25
61	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	24.15	20.90	27.38
62	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	23.35	14.59	31.44
63	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	23.20	16.71	29.73
64	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	22.57	21.25	24.01
65	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	22.41	23.22	21.49
66	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	20.88	14.74	24.14
67	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	19.85	13.11	26.46
68	Honduras`HND`Central America	15.82	16.34	15.18
69	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	13.22	9.55	17.96
70	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	12.40	7.52	18.14
71	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	10.59	9.29	12.16
72	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	5.49	6.33	4.56
73	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	5.23	4.07	6.42
74	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	4.93	2.80	7.52
75	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	4.01	2.30	6.04
76	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	3.15	2.46	3.89
77	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	1.31	0.70	1.98

02In 2006

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

1Latvia86.02
2United States85.75
3Czechia85.48
4Estonia84.92
5Switzerland83.12

Lowest

77Tanzania1.31
76Burundi3.15
75Burkina Faso4.01
74Senegal4.93
73Maldives5.23

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 44.86. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

Female
HighestLatvia87.16
LowestTanzania0.70
Middle country: 40.24
Male
HighestCzechia92.24
LowestTanzania1.98
Middle country: 48.90

032005 → 2006

Since 2005

What changed between 2005 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+25 / −13countries joined / left
52values changed, of 52 in both
40 · 12rose · fell
0unchanged

Rose most

Hungary63.55 → 71.19+7.64
Andorra43.91 → 49.95+6.04
Latvia80.08 → 86.02+5.94
Mexico25.88 → 30.26+4.38
Indonesia22.29 → 26.41+4.12

Fell most

El Salvador24.40 → 20.88−3.52
France56.59 → 54.12−2.47
Paraguay29.62 → 27.35−2.27
Colombia33.71 → 32.27−1.44
Puerto Rico77.50 → 76.78−0.72

+ Burundi

+ Burkina Faso

+ Bangladesh

+ Botswana

+ Chile

+ Cook Islands

+ Czechia

+ Denmark

+ Algeria

+ Egypt

+ Ghana

+ Guatemala

+ Hong Kong

+ Ireland

+ Iran

+ Macau

+ Maldives

+ Mali

+ Mongolia

+ Nigeria

+ New Zealand

+ Senegal

+ Thailand

+ Tanzania

+ Uruguay

− United Arab Emirates

− Belize

− Cameroon

− DR Congo

− Ethiopia

− India

− Iceland

− Kenya

− Malta

− Malawi

− Malaysia

− Nicaragua

− Solomon Islands

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

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UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2006). Upper Secondary Attainment, 2006 [data set], describing 2006. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/upper-secondary-attainment/2006

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